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Research Guide
Women's Studies
Academic Resources / Feminist
/ Global / Literary / Special
Populations
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Academic Resources
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An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and their perspectives.
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The Institute "is based on the Relational/Cultural Model developed at
the Stone Center, which suggests that growth-fostering relationships are
a central human necessity and disconnections are the source of psychological
problems. The JBMTI is a part of the Wellesley Centers for Women which includes
the Stone Center and the Center for Research on Women. See the Archives
for selected full-text articles.
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Links to quality classified resources on women's studies provided by the
UK Social Science Information Gateway. Access to bibliographies, briefing
papers, guides to online research and the Fawcett Library, Britain's national
research library for women's studies.
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The Women's Studies Librarian's Office at the University of Wisconsin
produces publications, bibliographies and core reading lists of in-print
material on a wide range of topics. This site is a useful reference source
for both teachers and librarians.
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A Women's Studies resource provided by the University of Maryland which
includes bibliographies, conference announcements, feminist reviews, and
syllabi from WS programs around the US.
Feminist Resources
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This far-reaching site offers news, events, networking opportunities,
directories of women's studies centers and political organizations. It points
to other sites of interest to women and girls arranged in subject categories,
health, work, domestic violence, global issues etc.
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Award-winning site which aims to help women make more effective use of
the Internet. News, contacts, articles, speeches and links to other pertinent
sites.
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The first searchable directory of links to female-friendly sites and information
on the World Wide Web.
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The USA's largest feminist organization online. Offers access to NOW newsletter,
press releases, national/local contacts, policy briefings and a history
of NOW's action on major issues over the past 30 years.
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WomensNet offers full-text articles, discussion and an e-mail newsletter
on feminist issues, including activism, economics, health, and domestic
violence.
Global Resources
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An international foundation focusing on female human rights issues and
supporting women's programs and groups worldwide. Links to other women's
and feminist activist resources.
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An international communication and resource network for information exchange
on the situation of women living in Eastern and Central Europe & the
former Soviet Union. Includes a biannual online newsletter & directory
of women's organizations in the region.
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Good list of links to women's resources on the Net compiled by the Women's
International Center, a non-profit educational foundation for women.
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WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global
women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the Fourth World
Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. It offers online documents
produced by the UN and other internaional organizations, as well as links
to news about implementation of Beijing resolutions in individual countries.
Literary Resources
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A list of women writers providing biographical information and links to
available works. The list of works available online is continually updated.
Individual titles load very fast.
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"This electronic literary magazine welcomes submissions of fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, interviews and articles, as well as film and book reviews by female
authors or related to girls' and women's issues and interests. The goal
of the magazine is to allow girls' and women's voices to be heard with beauty,
power and diversity." Published by Women Online Worldwide.
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"An international journal whose aim is to provide a forum for the publication
of new scholarly articles in the rapidly expanding field of women's history."
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"International journal focusing on women's writing before about 1900, ...concerned
with gender, culture, race and class."
Special Populations
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The June L. Mazer Collection is the West Coast's lesbian history archive
based in Los Angeles. Includes online newsletter "In the Life".
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The only national grassroots membership organization to focus solely on
issues unique to women as they age.
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